I want to have a series of online workshops for new ESL teachers, where I share tips and practical information as to how to make online English lessons successful.
However, the preparation hasn’t gone well, not knowing what to do to make it happen.
If you know exactly what to do, it’ll be easy to plan out what you do in accordance with your physical state, and thus you can work only when you feel relatively well.
I have been stressed out recently because I would always get exhausted by merely trying to find out what to do. I was getting worse day by day.
I was the kind of person who is prone to think that “I’m not good enough or pushing hard enough” when I cannot see any progress in what I do. It would always be my limited ability or lack of effort to blame.
It was, however, a group meeting hosted by my fellow English teacher on Twitter that gave me a turnaround in my way of thinking the other day.
In the meeting, I got to see how group activities would work and learned things that I could never learn from one-on-one lessons, and above all, it made me notice that I didn’t have much experience enough to have my own workshop.
That realization has made everything simple. It’s not about me, my poor skill set, or lack of effort, but it’s just that I need to learn more and experience more, and that made me feel good about myself.
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